ch.5 6 u-spp
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Ch. 5-6
• Moving West and the Industrial Revolution
Longhorn Steer
Open Range
Buffalo Uses
• KIDS Only? - Fun Stuff To Do - How Many Ways Can You Use a Buffalo?
• 1800- 15 million buffalo
• 1870- 1,000
• 2000- 260,000
Famous Indian War Battles
• Sand Creek Massacre-1864
• Battle of the Hundred Slain(Fetterman Massacre)-1866
• Red River War-1874-75
• Battle of Little Bighorn(Custer’s Last Stand)-1876
• Battle of Wounded Knee-1890-last major skirmish between NA and US Army
George Custer
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Chief Gall
Homestead Act
• Gave 160 acres of land to people to live on and farm
• Attracted thousands of people to the midwest
• Land speculators “stole” much of the land that was set aside for the Homestead Act
Struggles on the Great Plains
• Life on the Great Plains was not easy
• Lonely
• Bad weather
• Hard work
• Native Americans
Populist Movement
• Help farmers out of debt• Give people a greater voice in government• Increase money supply in circulation• Graduated income tax• Federal loan program• Direct election of Senators• Single terms for president/v.p.• Secret ballot• 8 hour work day• Restrictions on immigration
What helped the Industrial Revolution to take place?
• Tons of natural resources
• Government helped business
• Cities were growing
• Immigrants provided cheap labor
• Growing population provided markets for manufactured goods
• Oil boom
• Bessemer Process-cheap way to make steel
Henry Bessemer
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What helped the Industrial Revolution to take place?
• Electricity-light bulb-Edison
• Typewriter• Telephone-Bell
Transcontinental RR
Interstate Commerce Act
• Allowed the US Government to supervise railroads
• Set up Interstate Commerce Commision to carry out law
• Failed to help farmers
Andrew Carnegie
Horizontal and Vertical Integration
• Monopoly-Define
• Trust-Define
• Page 242
John D. Rockefeller
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states
• What is a “trust”?
Charles Darwin
Craft Unions vs. Industrial Unions
• What are the differences between these?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
Terrence Powderly
• Leader of the Kights of
Labor
* Allowed all workers in
American Federation of Labor
• Broken into “craft unions”
• Led by Samuel Gompers